Vladimir Guerrero

Bardball didn't start from a deep love of poetry, but from a swelling revulsion of Barry Bonds. In 2007, friends were emailing scathing limericks back and forth about the chemically enhanced slugger. They were too funny to waste, so Stuart Shea and I were inspired to build a website for fans' poetry. While some diamond devotees like to crunch batting averages and ERAs, we thought it would be fun to commemorate an entire season — games, players, oddities, hot dogs and all — in verse. Baseball and poetry have a long history. After "The Night Before Christmas," one could argue that "Casey at the Bat" is America's best known piece of doggerel....

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